Saturday, March 24, 2007

Sunn o)))

Right now I am listening to Sunn o))) the drone metal band. They seem very popular in the academic blogosphere (one of the band members recently collaborated on a play with queercore author Dennis Cooper) and medievalists should love them because (a) they wear scary medieval-style capes on stage and (b) they are asceticists.

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I love your work on heavy metal glossing--I never thought I would see Agamben's The Coming Community in such company. For a long time now I have been planning to write a paper on Deleuze and noise music (especially Whitehouse--the more recent stuff which arguably sees a new direction in their oeuvre, Birdseed and Asceticists 2006) and industrial music (especially Imminent Starvation). There's a great book in the Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Connections series on Deleuze and Music (edited by Marcel Swiboda and Ian Buchanan). If you haven't seen it already, Nicola, check out Ronald Bogue--perhaps the best explicator of Deleuze around--on black metal music and Deleuzian becomings.